Lan Yang

Professor Lan Yang is the Edwin H. and Florence G. Skinner professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Washington University,

St. Louis. She received her PhD. in applied physics from Caltech in 2005. She founded the nano/microphotonics lab at Washington University, has over fifteen years of experience in high-quality fundamental understanding of light-matter interactions in nano/micro photonic structures and has published over 110 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Science and Nature. She received NSF CAREER Award in 2010 for her work on single nanoparticle detection and sizing using an on-chip optical resonator. She is also the recipient of the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). She is the editor-in-chief of Photonics Research. She is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Physical Society(APS), the Optical Society (OSA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).